Sentence examples for harsh governance from inspiring English sources

Poor harvests and harsh governance by the Despenser family encouraged a Welsh rebellion under Llywelyn Bren in 1316; this was crushed and Llywelyn was hung, drawn and quartered in Cardiff Castle in 1318 on Hugh's orders.

Of course, beginning with a harsh theocratic governance system, Iranian support of Hezbollah and the vicious Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and its ambitions to dominate the Gulf.

Laws on corporate governance are harsh and constantly changing.

It sounds harsh, but truly good governance is the only recipe for Africa if widespread prosperity is to take root.

The case has cast a harsh spotlight on lax corporate governance in Japan.

In fairness, this anger is not exclusive to Britain: the German papers have harsh words for world football governance (though not many kind words for the FA of England), calling FIFA a "shameful money-making machine" and suggesting the Mafia is as likely to purge itself as FIFA.

But many corporate governance specialists are harsher than he is.

Writing from Hong Kong, Jean-Pierre Cabestan has few kind words and many harsh ones for China's system of governance.

The case is once against casting "a harsh spotlight on seemingly grave lapses of corporate governance at a top-tier Japanese company".

But the harshest words came from the Institute of Directors, whose corporate governance director Roger Barker asked "for whom is this institution being run?" after the bank paid out £2.4bn in bonuses but just £860m in dividends to shareholders.

Harsh crackdowns by Algeria and other governments to contain the terrorist threat have meanwhile kindled concerns about human rights abuses and authoritarian governance.